This is my first posting to our new MASS AWIS email listserv.

SUPPORT OUR MEMBERSHIP DRIVE AND JOIN MASS AWIS AT www.awis.org!!!
It would be great if we could win the "most grown" chapter award!
Even if you can't attend events, support the Association for Women in
Science by becoming a member!

Upcoming events:
MASS AWIS event--Thursday, June 16th at the MIT Whitehead Institute.
Thanks to Rita Lim for helping us set up this great location.
Mentoring for Success with Stephanie Bird. Stephanie literally "wrote
the book" "A Hand up: Women Mentoring Women in Science" and is a past
national AWIS National President! Join us for what is sure to be a
great event. Details to follow.

MASS AWIS chapter elections!!!
Our first ever chapter elections to fill the Chapter President, Vice-
President, Administrator and Treasurer positions will be held in
November. Please consider running for one of the positions...working
together we can share the effort and increase the output!

AWIS National Conference on Women in Science and Engineering
I'll be attending...if anyone else is thinking about going, let me
know!
An AWIS conference on Women in Science and Engineering is being
planned for June 23-24, 2005, at Smith College in Northampton, MA.
The purpose is to assess the progress made on the seven
recommendations from the 1995 NSF Conference on Women in Science, to
discuss the data presented and select the most important barriers to
the success of women in their STEM careers that remain, and to make
recommendations for a research agenda for the next decade. Topics
will be useful for corporate managers and academic administrators,
STEM researchers, faculty, graduate students, and those interested in
helping women scientists and engineers achieve full potential in
their careers. Speakers will include Shirley Jackson of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute and Rita Colwell, former Director of the
National Science Foundation.
Registration is now available at
http://www.awis.org/2005ncregistrationform.html. The fees are $150
for AWIS members; $195 for non-members; $125 for students/post-
doctoral fellows.